At the end of the day, women must understand how they look is important, but not all-important; that there are different ideas of beauty. It is in the eye of the beholder and it comes from within.

Australians always want everyone to be average, as if the best thing you can do is fit in.

My surroundings have always been conducive to achieving what you want and believing in self 100 per cent; not being afraid to stand up and voice your opinion.

Each letter has a shape, she told them, one shape in the world and no other, and it is your responsibility to make it perfect.

Sweat makes good friendship cement.

Then once you've got that dream in mind please dream a million more and not a million quiet dreams, a million dreams that roar!

Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.

I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.

Look at The Rock's competition! Look at him! It looks like a big monkey came down here, took a crap, and out came Mankind!

One fan sent me one tooth, so I made a necklace out of it. But then I found a bunch of my baby teeth, and started realizing I would love to wear a piece of my fans' bodies on me.

Our souls are prisoners of the terror of death, and the day is beautiful.

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer

Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man, for it was you who had no desire to reach the top.